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Alf’s Button Afloat on Talking Pictures TV , , Jimmy Nervo and Alastair Sim star in this 1938 Crazy Gang directed by Marcel Varnel. The Crazy Gang go to sea, where one of them discovers a button on his uniform is made from the metal of Aladdin’s lamp. With Teddy Knox, Charlie Naughton, Jimmy Gold, Wally Patch, Peter Gawthorne, Agnes Lauchlan, Glennis Lorimer, James Carney, Wilson Coleman, J.H. Roberts, Bruce Winston and Richard Cooper. Airs: Sunday 1st August 10am.

Monday 26th July 10am Wednesday 28th July 7:45am Another Time, Another Place (1958) Going a Bundle: Venice (1974-76) War Drama. Director: Lewis Allen. One of a series of programmes for Stars: Lana Turner, Sean Connery and children presented in a light-hearted Glynis Johns. A U.S. journalist has a way, featuring Harry Fowler and wartime affair with a British reporter. James Villiers on voyages of discovery. Unseen since the original broadcast. Monday 26th July 6:45pm Soapbox Derby (1957) Wednesday 28th July 10:30am Action. Director: D’Arcy Conyers. Stars: Loser Takes All (1956) Michael Crawford, Keith Davis and Comedy. Director: Ken Annakin. Malcolm Kirby. A group of boys Stars: Glynis Johns, Rossano Brazzi and compete in the Soap Box Derby, Robert Morley. When Bertrand finds despite sabotage from their rivals. an accounting error at a firm, the boss sends him to Monte Carlo. Monday 26th July 9pm (1949) Wednesday 28th July 12:15pm Thriller. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The Night We Got The Bird (1960) Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Comedy. Director: Darcy Conyers. Susan Hayward & . Stars: Brian Rix, Ronald Shiner, A New York banker faces criminal Dora Bryan and Liz Fraser. charges. His sons turn their backs An antiques seller gets caught up in except one, who is a lawyer. a forgery racket. Tuesday 27th July 8:05am Thursday 29th July 7:35am Return of a Stranger (1937) Turn of the Tide (1935) Crime. Director: Victor Hanbury. Stars: Drama. Director: Norman Walker. Stars: Griffith Jones, Rosalyn Boulter and John Garrick, Geraldine Fitzgerald & James Harcourt. James & Carol have Moore Marriott. Two young lovers are caught in the rivalry between two plans to elope, but a fight with her families in a fishing village. father’s solicitor ends in murder. Thursday 29th July 12:25pm Tuesday 27th July 12:10pm The Cardboard Cavalier (1949) The Chiltern Hundreds (1949) Historical Comedy. Director: Comedy. Director: John Paddy Walter Forde. Stars: , Carstairs. Stars: Cecil Parker, & . A. E. Matthews, David Tomlinson, Humorous depiction of the romance Lana Morris and Marjorie Fielding. between Lord Lovelace & Nell Gwyn, Tony runs for office as a socialist, but during the reign of Oliver Cromwell. faces competition from the butler. Thursday 29th July 6:30pm Tuesday 27th July 6:35pm Another Shore (1948) (1936) Comedy Drama. Director: Charles Comedy. Director: . Crichton. Stars: Robert Beatty, Stars: , , James Stanley Holloway & Moira Lister. Finlayson and . Stan A young Irishman comes up with an and Ollie’s long-lost twins are in town. unusual plan to get the money to Tuesday 27th July 9pm emigrate to Tahiti. We Joined the Navy (1962) Thursday 29th July 8:05pm Comedy. Director: Wendy Toye. Stars: The Girl Can’t Help It (1956) Kenneth More, Lloyd Nolan, Joan Comedy. Director: Frank Tashlin. Stars: O’Brien & Mischa Auer. Lt Commander Jayne Mansfield & Julia London. With Badger RN: has one fault – the honesty Fats Domino, Little Richard, Eddie to say the right thing at the wrong time! Cochran, The Platters & Gene Vincent. Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 | FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Mon 26th July 2021

Friday 30th July 7:45am Saturday 31st July 6:35pm Marked Down (1954) Went the Day Well (1942) Comedy. Director: William A. Seiter. War. Director: Alberto Cavalcanti. Stars: , Hal March & Joan Stars: Leslie Banks, Mervyn Johns & Banks. A woman working at an exclusive Basil Sydney. English villagers resist shop tries to land a millionaire husband. when invaded by a German platoon. Friday 30th July 1:35pm Sunday 1st August 10am Don’t Ever Leave Me (1949) Alf’s Button Afloat(1938) Comedy. Director: Arthur Crabtree. Comedy. Director: Marcel Varnel. Stars: Jimmy Hanley, Petula Clark Stars: Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Linden Travers & Hugh Sinclair. Jack’s Jimmy Nervo and Alastair Sim. grandfather Harry comes out of prison A British sailor releases a genie from a and stays with him in his flat. button made from Aladdin’s lamp. Friday 30th July 3:15pm Sunday 1st August 4pm Young and Innocent (1937) TEATIME WITH LAUREL & HARDY Drama. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Stars: (1940) Director: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney and Alfred J. Goulding. Stars Stan Laurel, Percy Marmont. A man on the run from Oliver Hardy and . a murder charge asks a young woman A bank pays for Stan & Ollie’s to put herself at risk for him. education at Oxford. Friday 30th July 6pm 5:15pm The Laurel-Hardy Murder The Egyptian (1954) Case (1930) Director: . Drama. Director: Michael Curtiz. Stars: Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edmund Purdom, and Frank Austin & Stanley Blystone. . A physician to the The Boys get involved in a murder pharaoh in 18th dynasty Egypt case after the death of Stan’s rich becomes drawn towards a new religion. uncle Ebenezer. 5:55pm Oliver Hardy Interview Saturday 31st July 12pm (1930) Oliver Hardy reminisces with Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) Jack Mangan about his 23-year Drama. Director: Delmer Daves. Stars: relationship with Stan Laurel and his , Susan Hayward and own early career. . Emperor Caligula wants the sacred robe of Jesus, but Demetrius Sunday 1st August 7:10pm refuses to help and has to fight in the Genevieve (1953) gladiators’ arena. Comedy. Director: Henry Cornelius. Stars: Kenneth More Dinah Sheridan Saturday 31st July 4pm and . Alan and Ambrose TEATIME WITH LAUREL & HARDY are not going to let friendship get in Towed In A Hole (1932) Director: the way of winning the London to George Marshall. Stars: Stan Laurel, Brighton rally. Oliver Hardy & . Stan and Ollie become fishermen. Sunday 1st August 10pm 4:25pm Block-Heads (1938) Jigsaw (1962) Director: John G Blystone. Stars: Stan Crime. Director: Val Guest. Stars: Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Patricia Ellis & . Unaware Jack Warner, Ronald Lewis and the Great War is over, Stan remains at his post for 20 years. Yolande Donlan. Two detectives try to solve a woman’s murder by 5:35pm (1928) reconstructing her past through a Directors: Clyde Bruckman & Leo McCarey. Stan & Ollie are ‘Jigsaw’ of clues. hired to finish building a house.

Saturday Morning Pictures 09:00 Laurel & Hardy: Liberty (1929) Comedy. Stars: Tom Kennedy, , James Finlayson, Jack Hill and Jean Harlow. play escaped convicts who exchange clothes, ending up wearing each other’s pants. 09:25 Green Hornet Strikes Again Episode 6: The Fatal Flash (1941) 09:55 Bush Christmas (1947) A very rare Australian–British Children’s Film Foundation film, directed by Ralph Smart. Stars: Chips Rafferty, John Fernside and Stan Tolhurst. A group of children track down rustlers they accidentally helped to steal their father’s horses. 11:05 The Fury Episode 3: The Horse Coper (1955) 11:35 The Phantom Empire: Chapter 2: The Thunder Riders. (1935) American Western serial starring Gene Autry.